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What are your favorite uses of the Leadership feat?
« on: January 29, 2010, 01:05:31 AM »
Leadership lets me get another weaker character for a feat, and some followers that stay in the background most the time.

What do YOU enjoy most about the Leadership feat?
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Re: What are your favorite uses of the Leadership feat?
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2010, 01:07:15 AM »
I prefer using Thrallherd and sacrificing my believers in rituals to gain a lot of bonuses.  I don't really care, because more will come tomorrow with their same fanatical devotion.
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Re: What are your favorite uses of the Leadership feat?
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2010, 01:31:16 AM »
Well, it's almost inarguably the second-best feat in D&D (the first would be Draconic Leadership, or whatever feat it is that lets you get a Dragonwrought Kobold two levels higher than you), so..

I like it because it allows my Druid to slow down combat even more by having another character to play.

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Re: What are your favorite uses of the Leadership feat?
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2010, 01:40:12 AM »
As a DM I like it for a quick and easy way to flesh out what sorts of minions and helpers a BBEG has.  I don't think I'd allow a player to take it unless the game focused on large-scale battles.
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Re: What are your favorite uses of the Leadership feat?
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2010, 03:11:40 AM »
Well, it's almost inarguably the second-best feat in D&D (the first would be Draconic Leadership, or whatever feat it is that lets you get a Dragonwrought Kobold two levels higher than you), so..

I like it because it allows my Druid to slow down combat even more by having another character to play.
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Re: What are your favorite uses of the Leadership feat?
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2010, 03:20:29 AM »
I like it because I hear it opens up potential for DND to become more of a miltary RTS, the opposite of what Blackmoor meant to differentiate itself from.
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Re: What are your favorite uses of the Leadership feat?
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2010, 04:30:40 AM »
At Epic, theres always the option of using them all to power Epic Spellcasting, I guess.

And then the DM twaps you with a book.

And makes a bigger ritual than you have.
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Re: What are your favorite uses of the Leadership feat?
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2010, 03:27:25 PM »
I like using it to give myself a really fancy sword.
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Re: What are your favorite uses of the Leadership feat?
« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2010, 04:06:51 PM »
I like using it to give myself a really fancy sword.
And by sword, you of course mean sandwich.




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You now can turn off anyone's abilities, provided that your followers can make the knowledge check about what they are.  I'd suggest a library and some aid anothers.
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Re: What are your favorite uses of the Leadership feat?
« Reply #9 on: January 29, 2010, 04:20:46 PM »
I like using it to give myself a really fancy sword.
And by sword, you of course mean sandwich.

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Re: What are your favorite uses of the Leadership feat?
« Reply #10 on: January 29, 2010, 07:29:52 PM »
So that none of us has to play a cleric (or other support character) if we don't want to ...

Seriously, that's what we use leadership (and planar binding, etc.) for. 

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Re: What are your favorite uses of the Leadership feat?
« Reply #11 on: January 29, 2010, 07:42:21 PM »
Using my followers as ambrosia batteries so I don't have to spend xp to craft.

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Re: What are your favorite uses of the Leadership feat?
« Reply #12 on: January 29, 2010, 10:10:38 PM »
Using my followers as ambrosia batteries so I don't have to spend xp to craft.
So...care to share your setup?
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Re: What are your favorite uses of the Leadership feat?
« Reply #13 on: January 29, 2010, 11:28:53 PM »
Last I heard, the 'generic' setup is an item of continuous Wrack, the nipple rings that turn pain into pleasure from BoVD, and some item that sustains them so they don't have to eat/drink.

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Re: What are your favorite uses of the Leadership feat?
« Reply #14 on: January 29, 2010, 11:37:44 PM »
Yeah, but variations are always cool.
The mind transcends the body.
It's also a little cold because of that.
Please get it a blanket.

I wish I could read your mind,
I can barely read mine.

"Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. At 2:15, it begins rolling up characters."

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Re: What are your favorite uses of the Leadership feat?
« Reply #15 on: January 30, 2010, 12:09:28 AM »
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Re: What are your favorite uses of the Leadership feat?
« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2010, 12:33:47 AM »
I always thought that this was pretty cool.

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Re: What are your favorite uses of the Leadership feat?
« Reply #17 on: January 31, 2010, 11:46:03 AM »
Using my followers as ambrosia batteries so I don't have to spend xp to craft.
So...care to share your setup?
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Re: What are your favorite uses of the Leadership feat?
« Reply #18 on: February 07, 2010, 09:45:21 PM »
You people think way too...mechanically.

Why do you take Leadership?

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Re: What are your favorite uses of the Leadership feat?
« Reply #19 on: February 07, 2010, 10:10:26 PM »
I like the notion of my animal companion taking Leadership. Suddenly, my horse is more popular than I am.